Subject: patch net-expose-all-network-devices-in-a-namespaces-in-sysfs.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:10:38 -0700

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Subject: net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfs

to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is

    net-expose-all-network-devices-in-a-namespaces-in-sysfs.patch

This tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/

>>From [email-masked]  Thu May 20 10:46:13 2010
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue,  4 May 2010 17:36:49 -0700
Subject: net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfs
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Cc: Kay Sievers <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Tejun Heo <[email-masked]>, Cornelia Huck <[email-masked]>, Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>, Benjamin LaHaise <[email-masked]>, Serge Hallyn <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, David Miller <[email-masked]>, "Eric W. Biederman" <[email-masked]>
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

From: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>

This reverts commit aaf8cdc34ddba08122f02217d9d684e2f9f5d575.

Drivers like the ipw2100 call device_create_group when they
are initialized and device_remove_group when they are shutdown.
Moving them between namespaces deletes their sysfs groups early.

In particular the following call chain results.
netdev_unregister_kobject -> device_del -> kobject_del -> sysfs_remove_dir
With sysfs_remove_dir recursively deleting all of it's subdirectories,
and nothing adding them back.

Ouch!

Therefore we need to call something that ultimate calls sysfs_mv_dir
as that sysfs function can move sysfs directories between namespaces
without deleting their subdirectories or their contents.   Allowing
us to avoid placing extra boiler plate into every driver that does
something interesting with sysfs.

Currently the function that provides that capability is device_rename.
That is the code works without nasty side effects as originally written.

So remove the misguided fix for moving devices between namespaces.  The
bug in the kobject layer that inspired it has now been recognized and
fixed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>

---
 net/core/dev.c       |   28 +++++-----------------------
 net/core/net-sysfs.c |   16 +---------------
 net/core/net-sysfs.h |    1 -
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -984,15 +984,10 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *d
 		return err;
 
 rollback:
-	/* For now only devices in the initial network namespace
-	 * are in sysfs.
-	 */
-	if (net_eq(net, &init_net)) {
-		ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
-		if (ret) {
-			memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
-			return ret;
-		}
+	ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
+	if (ret) {
+		memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
@@ -5112,8 +5107,6 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device
 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)
 		dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO;
 
-	netdev_initialize_kobject(dev);
-
 	ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_POST_INIT, dev);
 	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
 	if (ret)
@@ -5634,15 +5627,6 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL)
 		goto out;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
-	/* Don't allow real devices to be moved when sysfs
-	 * is enabled.
-	 */
-	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (dev->dev.parent)
-		goto out;
-#endif
-
 	/* Ensure the device has been registrered */
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED)
@@ -5693,8 +5677,6 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	dev_unicast_flush(dev);
 	dev_addr_discard(dev);
 
-	netdev_unregister_kobject(dev);
-
 	/* Actually switch the network namespace */
 	dev_net_set(dev, net);
 
@@ -5707,7 +5689,7 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	}
 
 	/* Fixup kobjects */
-	err = netdev_register_kobject(dev);
+	err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
 	WARN_ON(err);
 
 	/* Add the device back in the hashes */
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -508,9 +508,6 @@ static int netdev_uevent(struct device *
 	struct net_device *dev = to_net_dev(d);
 	int retval;
 
-	if (!net_eq(dev_net(dev), &init_net))
-		return 0;
-
 	/* pass interface to uevent. */
 	retval = add_uevent_var(env, "INTERFACE=%s", dev->name);
 	if (retval)
@@ -569,9 +566,6 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct ne
 
 	kobject_get(&dev->kobj);
 
-	if (!net_eq(dev_net(net), &init_net))
-		return;
-
 	device_del(dev);
 }
 
@@ -581,6 +575,7 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_d
 	struct device *dev = &(net->dev);
 	const struct attribute_group **groups = net->sysfs_groups;
 
+	device_initialize(dev);
 	dev->class = &net_class;
 	dev->platform_data = net;
 	dev->groups = groups;
@@ -603,9 +598,6 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_d
 #endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
-	if (!net_eq(dev_net(net), &init_net))
-		return 0;
-
 	return device_add(dev);
 }
 
@@ -622,12 +614,6 @@ void netdev_class_remove_file(struct cla
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_class_create_file);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_class_remove_file);
 
-void netdev_initialize_kobject(struct net_device *net)
-{
-	struct device *device = &(net->dev);
-	device_initialize(device);
-}
-
 int netdev_kobject_init(void)
 {
 	kobj_ns_type_register(&net_ns_type_operations);
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.h
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.h
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@
 int netdev_kobject_init(void);
 int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *);
 void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device *);
-void netdev_initialize_kobject(struct net_device *);
 #endif